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SOURCE: Missionary International Service News
Agency (MISNA)At least six more civilians were killed this week in attacks in the
Orientale Province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, by
Ugandan rebels of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) headed by the
visionary Joseph Kony. According to the United Nations stabilisation
mission in DR-Congo (MONUSCO), three civilians, including the village
chief, were killed on September 15 in Liakanda, in the Dungu district.
The following day a group of traders was attacked in Nambili, in the
Haut-Uélé district, by rebels who killed three and abducted another two,
looting their belongings. The MONUSCO also refers of the possible death
of another civilian the day after in Ngilima. The UN stabilisation
mission also expressed 'concern" over reports of a possible LRA
involvement in arms trafficking toward Uganda, through Sudan and
DR-Congo. The LRA, originally active in North Uganda, took refuge in the
forests of the Congolese Orientale Province, launching attacks, killing
and abducting civilians over the past three years in DR-Congo, the
Central African Republic and South Sudan. The indiscriminate attacks by
the rebels have caused wide discontent among the civil society and
religious leaders of the three countries. The Congolese and Ugandan
governments in the past days announced new joint operations against the
rebels.